The Washington critic., 1887-03-18
GENERAL NEWS NOTES.

tlOn yesterday.
Wilmington NJ. T.. Conference met at
Cfis1eld yesterday.
Rev. Lewis Wake OF North sassafras
parish, Md, is dead
Fire destroyed an old frame church build
Ing at Cambridge, Md.
a contract has been made for an electric
light plant for Easton, Md.
A case OF haziDg has developed at the
Naval Academy, Annapolis.
The new Philadelphia Art Club has
bought Il mansion on Broad street.
Blscoe, Captain Dlxon's murderer, is
cln,ed at the prospect of a new trial.
The Reading Railroad Company ia seek
Ing to vacate It's lease Of the Schuylkill
Canal.
The Tooth annual meeting of tho Metho-
dist Conference Of Philadelphia began yes
terday.
The Maryland Court of Appeals decided
against the city III the Fledderman registra-
tion case.
extension OF the B. aud o. is about to be
commenced.
The Prentice damage suit at Cambridge,
Md, was compromised by accepting 10000
for the plaintiff.
Thirty women graduated as Doctors o.
Medicine from the Philadelphia Women's
Medical College.
George Mattick, colored, was arrested for
entering the room OF two ladies In Dor
chester County, Md.
The b. aud o. Telegraph Company has
established communication between Biltl-
more al d Annapolis.
Mrs. Wickes, wife OF judge Joseph A.
Nickes, and Mr.. George B. Westcott of
Cbestertown are seriously III
Rev j. Il. Jackson OF Ascension Uhurch,
Baltimore, has acce1ted call to White.
marsh parish, Talbot County, Md.
a Ere which destroyed the barn and con
tents belonging to Thomas K. Jarboc, Lime
Kiln Switch, Frederick County, Nd, caused
loss N 5000.
William Baxley, colored boy, aged iG
years, was stabbed to the heart aud killed
In Charleston, $. e., yesterday, by three
small colored boys.
In the case of Howard Medar, on trial
at Pottsville, Pa, for the murder of Daniel
Miller, the jury yesterday returned YER
dict OF voluntary manslaughter.
Frank \. Scott, the defaulting cashier OF
the publishing firm Of Webster e Co. OF
New York, has confessed that he appropri.
a'ed s25, ,OC0 OF the FIRMS money.
Fire at Big Springs, Texas, Wednesday,
originating In the Sealy building, destroyed
the greater portion OF two blocks. Loss
over $4,000; insurance about $4,000.
Emily Miller and Gustave Gelsiorf, u
variety performer, known as Gus Gilmore,
have been arrested in Cincinnati IL Is
charged that they ran of from Newark, N.
D., with $3.50 belonging to the girls father.
Counsel for the Reading Railroad will
ask permission to vacate It's lease of the
Schuylkill canal without further notice to
the owners OF the property. The canal
company on the other hand Ia pushing Its
appeal for restraining order.
Captain A. B. Miller, of the Philadelphia
and Reading Coal and Iron Company's col
Her Wllliamsport, on March 10 fell In with
the schooner Victor OF Stoningtou, Conn,
of Block Island. In n sinking condition,
and rescued John I. Brewer and James L.
Scott.
At the one hundred and third anniver-
sary dinner OF the Friendly Sons of st. Pat
rick last night at Delmonlco's, New York,
there were three hundred guests. Letters
OF regret were read from President Cleve-
land, Secretaries Bayard, Whitney and
Postmaster-GeneralV Villas, Congressman s.
S. Cox and Mayor Hewitt.
Judge Brewer, in the United States Cir
cult Court for Kansas, has rendered de-
cisions In favor OF the Atchlson, Topeka,
brought by Clarence H. Venner, one to re-
strain the construction of the line from
Kansas City to Chicago, and the other to
prevent the guaranty by the santa Fe Com
| pany OF the bonds of the Atlantic and Pa
cifc Railroad Company.
The general officers OF the Chicago and
| Northwestern Railroad are investigating
charges preferred by road employees against
z, a. swiueiord, superintendent of the
Madison division, Assistant Superintendent
| X. A. Cohen and Chief Telegrapher W, A.
Lawson that tue officials named have been
| guilty OF tyranny IN an effort to enforce to-
tai abstinence from drinking among em-
| ployes Of the road.
Engineers OF the Baltimore and Ohio
| Railroad are showing some activity 10 de-
| vising plans for improving the terminal ia.
| cilities Of the company, aud 1t Ia said that
work is to be begun at once on the Phlla
delphia, Newtown aud West Chester Rail-
| road. This is an extension included In the
mortgage known as the "Skuylkill East
| Side 5's,h and must be built In order to pro.
| vide mileage enough to make the mortgage
| legal.
There Is serious dispute going on over
| the Philadelphia High School curriculum
The school has been conducted for long
| While as a finishing academy, but as the
University gives the city about forty free
scholarships IL was proposed to make the
! High School preparatory school, and then
to compromise by having two elective
| courses, orc scientific, leading to the degree
| of tachelor of erts, the other lifting the pu-
| pill for entrance to the classical department
of the University. This is opposed on ac-
count OF the expense of double set OF pro-
fessors. The faculty is almost evenly d.
| vided on the subject, and the board of edu-
cation has taken the matter out of the hands
| ~ Ia.